Seeing that there was glutinous rice on the boat, Huo Xi decided to eat glutinous rice balls for breakfast tomorrow.
First, scoop out the glutinous rice, wash it and steam it in a pot, then tear strips of meat, blanch vegetables, cut pickles, salted eggs, and peel shrimp shells.
After the glutinous rice is steamed, first brush a layer of oil on the lotus leaves, then spread a layer of glutinous rice, then add vegetables, chicken, duck, shrimp, pickles and salted eggs, and then brush with sauce.
Finally, wrap it tightly with lotus leaves and roll it into a ball, and a big glutinous rice ball is ready.
I've packed more than thirty of them, so it's ready. I just need to heat them up and eat them tomorrow morning.
Yang Fu couldn't hold it back and ate one while it was hot.
After eating too much and unable to sleep, Yu Jiang, who was keeping watch at night, chatted for a long time before getting into the cabin and falling asleep.
Also unable to sleep was Yang from Qionghua Lane.
Yang thought that today was the day when Huo Erhuai and his two children were going north to transport grain. She didn't know whether the journey would be smooth or not. The road was too uneven and she was worried. She felt in a daze all day and couldn't concentrate on her work.
Although life on the shore was better than on the boat, she and Nian'er were the only two people in this courtyard. Yang was not used to being away from her man and her two children, Fu'er and Xi'er.
I just feel lonely.
It's better if the whole family is together. With everyone watching under your nose at all times, you feel at ease.
During the day, Yang first carried Nian'er to the fish market to buy some shrimps, crabs, and dried fish to make some food. But when she went to the fish market and saw the deserted market, she realized that the fishermen's boats were all occupied.
Recruited.
There is no river fresh food for sale these days.
Occasionally, there are several fish sellers who also shout out high prices.
She slapped her thigh and regretted that she hadn't thought of this. If she hadn't made preparations earlier and stocked up some fish to sell in the next few days, she would have made more money.
There was nothing to buy in the fish market street, so Yang had to go all the way to tea shops and wine shops to watch others doing business.
Unexpectedly, someone was watching me during this stroll.
Ever since Wu Youcai made it known among the local ruffians that he was looking for a six- or seven-year-old girl and a few-month-old baby boy, there were many fools who had nothing better to do and secretly inquired.
As long as there is news reported to Wu Youcai, a lot of money can be obtained.
There are those who do nothing, just waiting for pie to fall from the sky, and gold ingots to fall from the world. Whenever they see someone who meets the conditions, they will report the news so that they can wait to receive the reward.
Who told Wu to say that he would rather kill someone by mistake than let him go?
For the Wu family and his own prosperity, Wu Youcai has been able to be popular and successful all his life because he has implemented his sister's words thoroughly.
As a result, local ruffians have made a career out of this, specifically targeting families with girls and boys, waiting to collect reward money.
Yang was targeted like this.
In the middle of the night, she was already worried about Huo Erhuai and her two children. After coaxing Nian'er to sleep, she lit a lamp and picked beans in her room, preparing to fry them tomorrow.
The gangsters outside waited for her daughter-in-law for half the night, but they didn't see her. They kept feeding mosquitoes all night, and she was bitten on one leg.
It wasn't until midnight that Yang turned off the lights.
The ruffian almost fell asleep after waiting. When he saw that the lights in the courtyard were turned off, he jumped for joy. He moved the stone and tiptoed to crawl into the courtyard.
You can get a little money by reporting the news. If you steal the boy inside, you can get more money by exchanging money over there!
Who knows how many months the baby boy will be by then? Isn't it his decision whether he meets the requirements or not? Then all he needs to do is make nonsense. With his sharp tongue, how much money can he get?
When you get the money, you can also go to the Gold-selling Cave to enjoy it.
I was so happy that as soon as my hands climbed up the courtyard wall and I was about to raise my legs to put up on the courtyard wall, someone slashed me hard on the back of my neck!
Before he could cry out, he fell down completely.
Gan San looked at the ruffian lying on the ground with disgust. He couldn't bear to look at the dirty dog-like appearance. He looked at his hands again. He had just cut him off with a knife, and he didn't know how much dirt was stained on it. He was immediately disgusted.
But it has to be dealt with.
He lifted the man on his shoulders in disgust, and when he was carried to a sheltered place, he woke him up. Before he could even begin to extract a confession, the man was so frightened that he peed, and poured what he wanted to do out of the bamboo tube like beans.
"Spare your life, hero, I didn't kill anyone! Hero, please let me go! I just wanted to steal the boy from that house and sell it for money. I didn't commit murder or arson!"
Gan San, who was tightly wrapped and dressed in black with only two eyes exposed, was like a messenger from hell. He was so frightened that he could not speak fully and was trembling.
The ground soon became covered with a pool of yellow water.
"I really didn't kill anyone. I was too timid to kill. I wasn't the one who killed anyone! Please spare my life, my dear!"
"Where are you sending people? Who is killing people?" Qian San said coldly, holding his throat.
"I don't know. I just heard that you can exchange money by sending the boy there. I can't send him there alone."
"All the boys are gone?"
"I don't know, I really don't know! Ah, hero, please spare my life!"
Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Gansan gave him dumb medicine, knocked him out again, carried him to a dark place in the outer city, threw him down, got three taels of silver, and left.
Aren't you short of food and drink? I'll send you to a good place, where you'll be provided with three meals a day. As long as you live, you'll have to eat and drink for the rest of your life. There's a shortage of miners there.
After returning to the city, he threw three taels of silver into the shantytown, then returned to Qionghua Lane and continued to play cat on the roof of Huo's house.
It was not until dawn the next day that I returned to Cheng Mansion to report.
Mu Yan had just come out of school, sweating profusely. His grandfather said that if you want not to be looked down upon by others, you must become stronger. Only by being stronger than others can you not be bullied. He always keeps this in mind.
His biological father is strong and strong, and there is no problem in living for another few decades.
What is he going to do?
His grandfather is dead, his successor is gone, and he cannot go back to the southwest. The power there has been handed over to his biological father, and the Mu Mansion in the capital is already a marginal prince's mansion in the eyes of others.
Eleven-year-old Mu Yan still doesn't know what his future path will be.
I just know that he wants to become stronger.
"Master, Gan San is back."
Mu Yan nodded, took the handkerchief from Li Yi and wiped his sweat while listening to Gan San's report on last night's news.
Hearing that Yang was in danger, he paused in wiping his sweat.
"People alive?"
"Alive, but my subordinate sent him to mine."
"Aren't you afraid of him escaping?" Mu Yan looked at him coldly.
"My subordinate only wants three taels of silver from the other party, and he must be kept under strict custody. If he falls into the hands of those people, there is no way he can get out." Killing him was too cheap.
Mu Yan frowned.
Why does his father's woman want him dead? Why does the little liar's concubine want her siblings to die? It's just to eliminate the root cause and avoid future troubles.
Only when people are dead are there no threats.
He doesn't have that much energy to face waves of enemies. He can do it if he can, and kill him with one blow. If he can't, he has to do it. If others don't die, he may die.
"Don't leave anyone alive next time." If he wants them dead, he wants them dead too.
"yes."
"Keep going back and staring."
"yes."
Gan San ducked away in response.
Mu Yan raised his head and looked at the sky. It was still early and the morning fog had not completely disappeared.
Little liar, you owe me another favor, and I will get it back in the future. You brothers and sisters must live well for me, and let me see how far you can go.
If you are gone, it would be no fun for me to live alone. I have to have someone to stay with me.
We should always let those who refuse to let us live take a good look at the fact that we are all alive and living better than them.
Mu Yan touched his chest where his heart was, and there was an arrow wound there. It still hurts his hand when he touched it. If he moved a little further down, the grass on his grave would be taller than a human being.